Laboratory for Computational Population Biology

Welcome to Computational Population Biology at UIC

Professor Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf

Flu pandemic, political microtargeting, behavioral response to predator presence, species genetic diversity. Populations contain intricate connections that occur on time scales ranging from milliseconds to generations. At the Laboratory for Computational Population Biology, we explore the growing interface between Population Biology and Computer Science, from genetics to social interactions.

March 2014

Marco Maggioni will do a (poster) presentation at GTC conference on "Adaptivity and Compression: a Recipe for Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication on GPUs".

February 2014

Marco Maggioni has received a hardware donation from NVIDIA: a K40 Testa GPU to continue his PhD dissertation on "Sparse Convex Optimization on GPUs"

Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf has received two grants from Microsoft Research to support her work in computational behavioral ecology: a 1 year Azure for Research Microsoft cloud services (value $40,000) and a separate $20,000 gift to support infrastructure for existing and new projects towards building an ecological information system, moving behavioral ecology into the era of data science.